[boost] Re: RealNetworks has one more comment on boost.tokenizer

From: Robert Zeh (razeh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-08 13:13:29

Sebastien Martel <smartel_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hello boosters,
> 
>       Thank you for looking over the comments I posted.
> 
>       I completely forgot to mention one important thing
>       boost.tokenizer 1.32 introduced that broke us when we moved from boost
>       1.31 :
> 
>       Here is my post on the matter on boost-users
> 
>       http://tinyurl.com/bc4av
> 
>       Essentially, the assign optimization (nice gains, thank you)
>       adds requirements on the container type. We have a custom string
>       classes that does not support it, but has a += member.
> 
>       So any use of tokenizer on these fails to compile. I sadly had to
>       revert back to 1.31 behavior until this gets resolved.
> 
>       Thanks,
>       -seb
> 
>       ( please cc me when replying, I do not follow boost_at_list )
> -- 

You are welcome for the speed up.

I thought the only additional constraint was that the container needed
a constructor that took two iterators --- is there a reason you can't
add such a constructor to your custom string class?  

Or is there an additional constraint I missed?

Thanks,
Robert